Archive for the ‘Gadget’ Category
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Although this post strays a little from the type of previous posts, it's some great info on how to actually find the information you're looking for.
I'm continually impressed by Google's methods of sifting through such large amount of data/information and empowering individual users to find what they want, however they ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Although I do enjoy my facebook account for the ability to keep in touch with old friends, I am turned off by the thousands of third-party applications which seem to only clog up a person's page with meaningless stuff like 'What SuperHero are you?", "Give your facebook friend a virtual ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
A little while ago, I found some new Wikipedia visualizations from the guys that brought you Visualizing Wikipedia - The Power Struggle.
Found at A Beautiful WWW, their new visualization attempts to highlight activity in regions of Wikipedia that are predominately math or science or technology.
We developed a program to ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
When I originally saw the premise of Cabspotting.org, I assumed the intentions to visualize San Francisco's Yellow Cab service data only went skin deep... merely a slick cover on basic GPS plots. I think I underestimated their vision...
Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Depending on your general interest in video games, you may have heard of the wildly popular multi-player game released earlier this year, Halo 3. In the 3rd generation of the game, player statistics are even more significant.
Personally, I'm a big fan and have probably spent too many hours in ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I've been listening to a number of the free online radio sites like Last FM, Slacker , and Pandora for some time now. Pandora in particular claims to help listeners discover new music they like, but don't know about, by playing music with the same general traits as ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I don't check Google Labs often enough. Every time I do, I find some new gadget or tool I can't help but mess around with. This time I was surfing the net and found some trend analysis visualizations that caught my attention. The new Google Trends tool is ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
A colleague sent me the link to the KartOO search engine a while ago and I've just revisited the site and thought that it still presents information in a unique way, particularly as a search engine.
KartOO is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map.
KartOO is a ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
I was checking out the website for the USC Interactive Media Division and found an innovative tool that not only uses visualization to offer insight through new and interesting visual perspectives, but offers the ability to simultaneously manipulate sound properties.
Vincent Diamante's MFA thesis, Project AWOL is ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Personally, I believe there’s an overabundance of social networking sites on the net. So, when I stumbled across FIDG’T: Your Social Networking Address Book I wasn’t immediately interested.
To be honest, I’m still not interested in joining this social network, but they do have a fascinating visualization that I’d ...
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